What is the Importance and Benefits of Acting in Accordance with Sunnah?
Believers are encouraged to act in accordance with the sunnah of the Messenger of Allah in the Quran as follows:
“Ye have indeed in the Messenger of Allah a beautiful pattern (of conduct).” (al-Ahzab, 21).
In another verse, the following is stated:
“If ye do love Allah, follow me: Allah will love you and forgive you your sins...” (Aal-i-Imran, 31).
It means the sign of loving Allah; and the way of making oneself loved by Allah is adopting the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah and acting in accordance with it. A person who loves Allah really will definitely try to resemble the person whom Allah loves and is pleased with, and try to imitate his deeds.
There are many virtues and rewards of acting in accordance with the Sunnah. The issues of the Sunnah, and even the smallest manners of the Sunnah inform Muslims how to act in the complicated roads of life and show them the safest and most reliable roads like a compass. The Sunnah makes believers obtain the unfailing and unchanging criteria of value.
In short, “The Sunnah of the Prophet is the cornerstone of the happiness in the world and in the hereafter and it is the source of making a person mature.”
It is very difficult to act in accordance with the whole sunnah. It is very difficult even for the great saints and scholars. However, although not everyone can act in accordance with the whole sunnah, everybody can have the intention of acting in accordance with the Sunnah and be in favor of the Sunnah. Thus, a person will not be deprived of the intercession of the Messenger of Allah and will not be away from the abundance of the Sunnah since he has the intention of acting in accordance with the Sunnah and is in favor of the Sunnah.
We should always have the desire and intention of fulfilling sunnahs although we cannot fulfill them due to the inconvenience of the conditions. We should not ignore the sunnahs that we can fulfill without any excuses and due to laziness.
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